What does 😜 mean?
A winking face with tongue out: joking, being silly, 'just kidding'. Playful and relaxed.
Its official Unicode name is FACE WITH STUCK-OUT TONGUE AND WINKING EYE and its CLDR short name is "winking face with tongue" (in Hungarian: "arc kinyújtott nyelvvel és kacsintó szemmel"). It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group and was added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010.
Keywords that find it
Keyboards and emoji pickers suggest it for these words (Unicode CLDR).
- crazy
- epic
- eye
- face
- funny
- joke
- loopy
- nutty
- party
- stuck-out
In Hungarian: arc, csipkelődik, csúfolódik, huncutkodik, kacsintás, kiöltött nyelv, mosoly, nyelv, szem, szmájli
Will it look the same for everyone?
Every vendor (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, WhatsApp and Facebook) draws 😜 in its own style, so the colours or shape may differ a little for the person you send it to. The meaning stays the same, because the text always carries the same code point: U+1F61C. It has been around for years, so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Technical details
- Official name
- FACE WITH STUCK-OUT TONGUE AND WINKING EYE
- Hungarian name (CLDR)
- arc kinyújtott nyelvvel és kacsintó szemmel
- English name (CLDR)
- winking face with tongue
- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6 (2010)
- Group
- Smileys & Emotion · face tongue
- Length
- 1 code point · 4 bytes in UTF-8 · 2 UTF-16 units
- Shortcode
- :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Related emojis
Frequently asked questions
What does the 😜 emoji mean?
A winking face with tongue out: joking, being silly, 'just kidding'. Playful and relaxed.
How do I type the 😜 emoji?
The easiest way is to copy it from this page. On Windows open the Win + . panel, on a Mac press Ctrl + Cmd + Space, and on a phone search the emoji keyboard for "crazy".
When was the 😜 emoji added?
It was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010), so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Data: Unicode emoji-test.txt and Unicode Character Database 18.0, Unicode CLDR (names, keywords), GitHub gemoji (shortcodes). The meaning describes everyday online use, not an official definition.